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"Carmelo Anthony and D. Watkins' New Book Chronicles Basketball Star's Baltimore Upbringing". 20 September 2021.

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"Black Boy Smile by D. Watkins". Hachette Books. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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"We Own This City". HBO. Retrieved January 4, 2023.

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McCabe, Bret (2014-09-10). "Dwight Watkins, former drug dealer, forges a new identity: D. Watkins, author". The Hub. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
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"Dwight Watkins, former drug dealer, forges a new identity: D. Watkins, author". 10 September 2014.

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"The Cook Up by D. Watkins". Kirkus Reviews.
"We Speak for Ourselves by D. Watkins". Kirkus Reviews.
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Parham, Jason (13 May 2016). "The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir, by D. Watkins". The New York Times.
Egan, Elisabeth (23 September 2021). "Readers Aren't into Sports? The Best-Seller List Says Otherwise". The New York Times.
"Editors' Choice". The New York Times. 20 May 2016.

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Paris Book Award for General Nonfiction

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"Bestselling Author D. Watkins Talks Trump, Satire and the Future of Salon". 9 January 2017. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2017.

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"One Book Baltimore".

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"Nonfiction Book Review: We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins. Atria, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8782-7". 11 September 2018.

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"Stories written by D. Watkins".

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"Skyhorse, Salon Join Forces on "Hot Books" - PubCrawl". Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
McCauley, Mary Carole. "Celebrate Black History Month by curling up with these books by Baltimore-area writers". Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
"Bestselling Author D. Watkins Talks Trump, Satire and the Future of Salon". 9 January 2017. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2017.

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